I've uploaded sample SPSS sav files to my web space.
This file was made with SPSS verion 13.0 and does NOT crash R 2.8.1 on my machine: http://www.3dculture.com/images/Florida2000ElectionData.sav This is the same file, but saved with SPSS ver 17.0, it does not crash but returns warnings: http://www.3dculture.com/images/test17Florida2000election.sav The remaining files were also saved with SPSS 17.0 This file consistently crashes R: http://www.3dculture.com/images/testRcrash.sav This file was also saved with SPSS 17 and is a subset of "testRcrash.sav" yet it does not crash R and returns warnings like the ones in my post above: http://www.3dculture.com/images/testRwarn.sav Another SPSS 17.0 sav file that consistently crashes R 2.8.1: http://www.3dculture.com/images/test17miss.sav -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/reading-SPSS-.sav-files-%28PR-13509%29-tp21889920p22008606.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel